Spirits

What’s that? AMANDA is leading
an episode? It’s the gift that keeps on giving—and naturally, we go
full nerd. We talk linguistics, Julia gets some stuff right (and
wrong), Amanda has breakfast in bed with the Oxford Dictionary, you
discover what a plowie is, and we all realize that language isn’t
always an exact...

The Arthurian Canon is sacred to
some people—so you know we’ve got a lot of jokes about it. We dive
into the nitty gritty with special guest Christian Madera as we
talk about why self-insert fanfiction is questionable, even in the
Middle Ages; how OT3s can solve all problems; how freaky historians
can get; and why...

Winter is here, and with it
blows the cold wind of something spooky. We tell the sad tale of
the Yuki-onna, a spirit of a woman who froze to death in the icy
cold, who comes back seeking the warmth that will destroy her. We
spin a tale of Amanda’s future bed & breakfast, redefine what a
terrible Hallmark card would...

Spaghetti Warehouse makes its
return, along with some spaghetti conspiracies. Grandpa comes back
with a Bloody Bones follow up. A fan from Shropshire tells us why
they avoid wearing hoodies. We learn never to look a gift camel in
the mouth. And, as always, we get freaked out by the creepy stories
you’ve got.

Bundle up from the cold as we
tell you some of our favorite stories from Inuit mythology. We tell
the relatable story of how a woman goes from a horrible marriage
and overbearing father to being the queen of the sea and
underworld. Then we dive into the land where the spirit and human
worlds are blurred, and...